On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 10:43 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > As one of the efforts in the Fedora/Seneca collaboration[1], the Fedora > Documentation project is working with a technical communications class > at Seneca College. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Seneca_College_tech_communications_class_plan_2008-2009 > > This is an extension of the new Fedora collaboration, which is building > on the success Seneca College has had pairing with (primarily) the > Mozilla Foundation. The basic idea[2] came up in a session at > FUDCon[3]. After that, I met with Beth Agnew and Chris Tyler[4]. Beth > is coordinating on the Seneca College side. She has a vision for the > collaboration that fits very well with the way we do things in Fedora. > We can expect students to start appearing very soon after the class > starts this Fall. > > Our tasks: > > * Get a complete task list done > ** Full specifications and requirements > * Make a list of willing mentors to work with students > > For an example, I'm going to pick on Eric Christensen (Sparks): > > 1. Sparks completes a basic outline for the user and > administrator sections of the Security Guide, with full > consideration for existing content coming in from the Fedora > Deployment Guide. > > 2. Next he and other Security Guide writers create a stand-alone > task page with full details and assignments. > > 3. By keeping a goal on modular and sustainable work, there is > plenty to give students to work on in both wiki and XML, with > small and large writing/editing projects. > > I'm really excited about this project. It is going to bring new and > passionate contributors, get multiple documents completed, and help us > hammer out modern processes where we are lacking. Goals and > philosophies between the Seneca College tech comms group and the Fedora > Project are highly similar. I had many "Yes!" moments talking with Beth > where she was describing how they do the writing class. Karsten -- thanks for kickstarting this collaboration. I added myself to the mentors list so I can help give entering students a helping hand as they learn our project and processes. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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